Enthusiastic; high-spirited.
The Spring will come with its ebullient blood, / With flush of roses and imperial eyes
Of a liquid: boiling and bubbling, or agitated as if boiling.
Causing heat.
Borrowing from Latin ēbulliēns, present participle of ēbulliō (“I boil”), from bulliō (“I bubble up”) (English boil). Compare bubbling, bubbly, and perky, which use a similar metaphor.
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